Ultrafast Infrared Mechanistic Studies of the Interaction of 1-Hexyne with Group 6 Hexacarbonyl Complexes

Autor: Charles B. Harris, Elizabeth A. Glascoe, Christine K. Payne, Matthias F. Kling, Jennifer E. Shanoski
Rok vydání: 2005
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Zdroj: Organometallics. 24:1852-1859
ISSN: 1520-6041
0276-7333
Popis: The ultrafast solvation and rearrangement dynamics following the photolysis of M(CO)6 (M = Cr, Mo, W) in terminal alkyne solutions have been investigated. Upon photoinitiated loss of a ligand from the parent metal hexacarbonyl, coordination to an alkyne solvent molecule is followed by rearrangement to a complex that is bound to the terminal alkyne site in a π-bonded fashion. This rearrangement occurs on a time scale that is anticorrelated with the metal−ligand binding energy. A dissociative rearrangement is ruled out for this process in favor of an associative or interchange mechanism. Previous theoretical and experimental studies are examined, and we conclude that the ultimate rearrangement to a vinylidene species is energetically inaccessible at ambient temperatures on the femtosecond to millisecond time scale.
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